Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had U. S. troops dug in on the Western Front in World War I than they started a newspaper. The Stars & Stripes made fun of lice and mud, pricked the vanity of many a martinet, nurtured young journalists like Alexander Woollcott, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, who were later to bloom luxuriantly in Manhattan's literary gardens...
...gaslit era before cinema and radio, St. Nicholas was the No. 1 U. S. magazine for young people. Like the old quarry where swimming was forbidden, like the first ice on the pond in winter, it was an essential part of childhood-a storehouse of fruitful articles and hair-raising fiction for adolescents...
...successor to Tiny Tower, St. Nicholas went into Woolworth stores last week. Its price was cut from 25? to 10?. It sported a bright two-color format like Tiny Tower's. Oldtime readers of St. Nicholas would never have recognized its pages, filled with crude, bold drawings of camels and hippopotamuses and monkeys, pictures to be cut out and mounted, nursery fables in the style of Thornton Burgess...
Last week, for a second time since September1, U. S. carpet prices were raised-a total increase of 10% since World War II began. Big carpet makers, like Bigelow-Sanford, Mohawk Carpet Mills, Alexander Smith Co., wondered where next year's carpet wool was coming from. War and embargoes had wiped out some 75% of the carpet wool supply. Meanwhile, after a deficit year in 1938 (Bigelow-Sanford lost $1,491,000, Mohawk $1,486,000), they stood to make a handsome inventory profit...
...packing (Geo. A.) Hormel & Co., World War II is anathema. How to keep the U. S. out of it has become his most solemn thought. Month ago at Chicago's American Legion Convention he got a bright idea: a popular song, a song that would sweep the nation like Barney Google or The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round...